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oldpaintings:

Dolls’ House of Petronella Oortman, c.1710 by Jacob Appel (I) (Dutch, 1680–1751)

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31, 132, 138, 199, 211, 313, 317

Gospels, MS 34, Jura Cantonal Library

Joaquín Sorolla 

Henri Fantin-Latour, La Famille Dubourg (1878)   

St. John the Baptist Spinning a Ball in the Wilderness
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- St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (ca. 1636) by Guido Reni
- St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness (ca. 1760s) by Anton Raphael Mengs
- St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (ca. 1670) by Cristoforo Savolini
- St. John the Baptist (1849) by Alexandre Cabanel 
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THE LADY OF SHALOTT

‘The Lady of Shalott’ is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred Tennyson. The poem is loosely based on the Arthurian legend of Elaine of Astolat, as recounted in a 13th-century Italian novellina titled La Damigella di Scalot, or Donna di Scalotta.

According to Tennyson’s version of the legend, the Lady of Shalott was forbidden to look directly at reality or the outside world; instead she was doomed to view the world through a mirror, and weave what she saw into tapestry.
Her despair was heightened when she saw loving couples entwined in the far distance and she spent her days and nights aching for a return to normal. One day the Lady’s mirror revealed Sir Lancelot passing by on his horse. When she impetuously took three paces across the room and looked at him, the mirror cracked and she realised that the curse had befallen her.
The lady escaped by boat during an autumn storm, inscribing ‘The Lady of Shalott’ on the prow. As she sailed towards Camelot and certain death, she sang a lament. Her frozen body was found shortly afterwards by the knights and ladies of Camelot, one of whom is Lancelot, who prayed to God to have mercy on her soul.
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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906), The Parisian Sphinx, 1875-1877,  oil on canvas, 72 x 52 cm. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
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Beside being renowned for its realism and luminism, The Parisian Sphinx has been described as enigmatic, just as its title. Critics agree in that the apparently realistic painting conceals a hidden meaning. Many point to the “hidden dangers behind feminine tenderness,” and to the figure of the femme fatale. Read more
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Eduard Veith (1856-1925), The King’s Daughter (Die Königstochter), 1902, oil on canvas, 74 x 49 cm. Belvedere Museum